Back in Arkansas, the Clintons lost $30,000 (of their own money) in Whitewater.  Trump — while President — has directed millions (of our tax dollars) to himself.

Kenneth Starr was hired in both cases — to impeach Clinton and defend Trump.

Violation of the “emoluments” clause is just one of several additional “articles” […]

There are a quarter billion adult Americans, some small percentage of whom are, or at least might be, corrupt — say 1%?  (Two and a half million.)  Isn’t it an amazing coincidence that the one — and only! — possibly-corrupt person out of all those two and a half million whose possible corruption the President […]

Tony B.: “To mark the onset of the impeachment trial, I wish each Senate juror could absorb this perspective-rattling speech first thing Tuesday morning as she or he begins to parse truth from falsehood, to put constitutional principal over personal gain: Charlie Chaplin’s eight-minute exhortation to defend democracy at the end of The Great Dictator.”

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But first:

Kenneth Starr?  Really?

The man who thought a president should be removed from office for lying about a consensual affair . . . not to win re-election or defying the will of Congress or playing into the hands of Vladimir Putin . . . not endangering the lives of allies under attack by […]

At the end of this post I offer — free — an amazing “stage play” to which you might want to devote an hour of your weekend.

But first, as laughter is the best medicine, watch Larry David on the Today Show promoting Season 10 of Curb that airs Sunday. I laugh just thinking […]

Or at least the easier way — by political psychologist Karin Tamerius.  Worth the read.

You might also mention that — despite running close to a $1 trillion deficit to juice the economy (and get more cash into the hands of already-cash-rich corporations that used it to buy back stock and drive their share […]

In his new book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, published yesterday — of which you can read a compelling sample here — Nicholas Kristof reports on the crisis that grips much of the country.

There are things we could do about it.

Those things do NOT include: cutting taxes on the rich, rejecting […]

I’ve been meaning to share this wonderful piece (“We Need a New Science of Progress”) . . . which has an embedded link to this wonderful piece (“The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel”).

Better late than never.

And speaking of progress, how about The Superpowers of Super-Thin Materials?

As a species, […]

Turns out, Hillary did nothing wrong.

Do you think Trump will apologize for leading chants of “lock her up?”

He, who deplores witch-hunts?

He, who is himself subject to the greatest witch-hunt in our country’s history?

He, who is surely not guilty of obstruction of justice, let alone obstruction of Congress?

(He […]

You’ll need the sound on for all four of these:

One reason for a young person to back Trump.  Seventeen seconds.

Three minutes from the 2018 State of the Union address.

Stand By Your Man.  Also three minutes.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic.  Five.

Much in that last one that […]